Death certificate cause of death

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My question is based on the fact the Queen’s death certificate has been released and it says the cause of death was “old age”

Obviously, that is true but I didn’t think an official record of a person’s death would record the cause using such a basic term?

I thought it would have to be the actual scientific/medical cause of death?

Just curious!

Is your point that she would have been under medical care for something other than old age? Because that doesn't hold true. Gerontology is a whole area of medicine with lots of medical intervention and support for the individual but the elderly person can still die of old age.

It would. But she obviously didn't have any of those things. I think other than her mobility issues, she was in good health.

'old age' is still put on some heat certificate. DH deals with a lot of death certificates due to his work and I asked him the same question.

Cause of death: Liz Truss.

My FIL died in June this year aged 94 and his death certificate said old age as the cause of death. His organs failed and he died due to his organs being very old. He didn't have any diagnosed conditions at all.

I attended some post mortems some years ago which were fascinating. All patients were a similar age. There were 3 patients. 2 patients were obvious - a blood clot in the heart and the other had a bleed in the brain. The third had no obvious problem so they deemed ‘old age’. Patient was in their 90s.

I work in deceased accounts for a large financial organisation and I can confirm old age is on many certificates I've seen.

@LosingTheWill2022 people don't generally get placed under medical supervision for being old do they ?!

She was very lucky

I assume that tells us she didn't have something like a stroke or a heart attack? There's been quite a lot of speculation that it was one or the other.

I already did because I'm that petty.

A few minutes after she died, someone was claiming that they heard 'hours ago' that she had already died, and that Councils had already been informed. Looking at you, @montysma1.

Of course they do.
Especially if you're the Queen.
My Dad had lots of visits from the GP and District nurses in the last few years of his life. He was slowly dying of old age and they monitored and treated what they could during that time. His mobility went and he had infections etc. all associated with being in his 90s. And the cause of death is still cited as "old age".
If he'd been the king those visits would have been from the Royal physician or whoever it is.

😂😂😂😂
Seriously get a life. You have made my day.

But for the record, my father died at some point in the early hours, with a death certificate stating 2pm the next day.

My grandmother's death certificate from 2003 record her cause of death as 'old age'. She was 98 and quite simply there was nothing wrong with her except the frailty of old age.

Lots of modern death certificates say either 'old age' or 'frailty of old age'. People don't last forever.

The woman had absolutely no privacy in life, she is entitled to some in death. She was very old, that reason enough.

My Nana had the same cause of death at 89. That was in 2001.

So this will put paid to the theory according to Lady Colin Campbell who said the Queen had bone cancer and died at 1.40pm ??

Well I’m assuming we will go by what the death certificate says as it wouldn’t be allowed to be made up?

not sure where lady Colin Campbell got that info from.

Sorry my mistake. She announced that the Queen had died at 2.37pm

Maybe she died from an overdose of Truss

It was obvious after Philip that the Queen's certificate would say Old Age as well.

Both of them very obviously had medical problems that were being closely monitored but it is entirely acceptable to write Old Age for those who are very old, so the palace medical team had an excellent way to give both of them some confidentiality.

Personally I'd only use Old Age if there was absolutely nothing else I could think of to put, and I very much doubt this was the case for either the Queen or Philip.

But both of them were very old so it is a very clever solution.

Maybe they didn't want to autopsy her body just to satisfy people's curiosity.

My grandparents died ten years ago, at home. Their death certificates said the cause of death was old age. They were 93 and 97.

Out of her arse like everything else she says.